On 25/07/2011 13:18, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Michael Foord wrote:
On 25/07/2011 12:26, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I have a very strong
preference for keeping the archives public unless we absolutely have to.
I'd rather offending messages were scrubbed from the archive than the
list archives made private.
That's not possible, I'm afraid, since the list archives on python.org
are not only being picked up by Google, but also other sites which
then co-host them, e.g.
http://markmail.org/search/?q=pydotorg-www#query:pydotorg-www
list%3Aorg.python.pydotorg-www+page:1+state:facets
http://www.mail-archive.com/pydotorg-www@python.org/info.html
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pydotorg-www
That's only if the archives are left long enough for the spiders to pick
them up. Not guaranteed to prevent information leakage but may be
sufficient in individual cases.
It seems that those sites are directly signed up to the mailing
list, so there is no lag which could be used to scrub such
messages.
Making the archives private wouldn't solve this either.
Ok.
BTW: How often do you actually search on this mailing list ?
What I often do is browse the archives, having to log in is a nuisance.
I also link to discussions on the list - making them private effectively
prevents that as people have to join the list just to view the
archives. Occasionally when I can't find a particular discussion I use
search to find it.
Well, then what do you recommend to keep such infos off the net ?
Not posting them to a public list! Plus having policies and security
infrastructure in place that does not allow harm due to accidental
revealing of information.
This could just as easily have been posted to python-list or some other
public list, we should have policies in place to cope with this.
Whatever those policies are should apply to this list.
True. I'm just not sure how this could be done, though. The only
way appears to be moderation, but that's not really feasible without
a whole team of moderators.
I meant policies to deal with the results of actual information leakage
(plus "social policies" to prevent it happening) - not moderating every
message to every public list we run!
Michael
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